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August 29, 2023

Unicorn Producing Artistic Director Cynthia Levin Retires After 45 Years

Under her leadership, the small but determined company helped shape Kansas City's national reputation as a scrappy theater town.
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August 29, 2023

Season Lookahead: Visual Arts Exhibition Highlights

Get an informed overview of some of the best the city has to offer in our illustrated season lookahead for visual art.
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August 28, 2023

2023-24 Season Brings Old Favorites and New Contemporary Works

From "Mockingbird" and "Virginia Woolf" to favorite musicals and explorations of searing historical events.
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August 23, 2023

Editor’s Letter, September/October 2023

It’s fall, and Kansas City artists and arts organizations are ready for business.
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August 21, 2023

In Memoriam | Remembering Ron Slowinski (1942-2023)

The widely exhibited artist and longtime Kansas City Art Institute professor balanced earthly delights with the mysterious and mystical.
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July 31, 2023

‘Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence’

The veteran abstractionist's retrospective at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is triumphant, complex and relentlessly generous.
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July 26, 2023

Gallery Glance | Katy McCormick: Rooted Among the Ashes: Hibakujumoku/A-bombed Trees

For more than ten years, photographer Katy McCormick has been documenting the survivor trees that have regenerated after the 1945 atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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July 25, 2023

Arts News: WWI Museum and Memorial Digital Exhibit Explores German Propaganda Targeting Muslims

In a new digital exhibit, “Fighting with Faith: A World War I Camp of Propaganda,” the National WWI Museum explores the alliance between Germany and the Ottoman Empire during the war.
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July 24, 2023

In Praise of Okra’s Imperfections

There is no such thing as perfect okra. You can forget about it. There is only okra as it appears in various stages.
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